Capsule machine



(No Model.)

F. A. -HUBBL A; H. H.. TAYLOR.

A l CAPSULE MACHINE. 10.268,103.

Patentedmv. 28, 1882.

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UNITED STATES i PATnNfr Ormes.

FREDERICK A. HUBEL AND HARRISON H. TAYLOR, OF DETROT, MICHIGAN,

ASSIGNORS TO SAID HUBEL.

CAPSULE-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,103, dated November 28, 1882.k

Application filed J une 14, 1882.

To alt 'whom it may concern Be it known that we, FREDERICK A. HUBEL and HARRISON H. TAYLOR, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for ImmersingOapsule-Molds; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to Vcertain new and useful improvements in the construction of a device for immersing capsulemolds in a gelatine solution and removing the same therefrom.

The invention consists in the {culiar construction and operation ofthe device, as more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein our invention is shown in perspective, Arepresents a bracket, designed to be secured in a vertical position to any suitable support; and this bracket supports a two-part slide, C, the front and rear and both sides of thisslide being provided with friction wheels or bearings D. Between the front and rear walls of this slide, and between the wheels, the smooth plate-bar E has a. vertical motion. The lower end of this bar terminates in two flanged jaws, F, upon the flanges of which, with the mo1d-pins projecting downwardly, is placed a plate of molds, substantially such as is described in F. A. Hubels Reissued Letters Patent No. 8,440. The upper end of this bar is connected by a rope, chain, or wire to a lever, E[, suitably Vfulcrumed above the device; and the opposite end of this lever is provided with a counter-balance, I, of sufficient weight to balance the bar and its attachments and plate of molds in place.

Projecting from one side of the slide, and rigidly secured thereto, is a nut, J, and a hollow guide, K. Projecting from the bar, and rigidly secured thereto, is a stop, L, the nut, guide, and stop all being in line with each other. The thumb-screw M, the upper end ot which is turned oft' smoothly, is engaged with the nut and guide to regulate the depth of the immersion of the mold-pins in the gelatine solution. The receptacle for such gelati ne solu- (No model.)

tion being full and the device described supported immediately above it, the set-screw is run up a sufficient distance, so that when the bar carrying the molds is run down until the stop upon the bar impinges against the top of the thumb-screw the molds will have been dipped in the solution to the proper depth. As one plate of molds after another is thus immersed and removed the solution gradually lowers in the receptacle, and as gradually the thumb-screw is turned down to allow the bar to drop a little farther, and so until the solution has been so nearly used up as to require that its receptacle shall be replenished.

As it is essential that the molds, after immersion, should be quite slowly withdrawn at a regular speed from such immersion, we prothe molds are Withdrawn from the solution,

when such plate is removed and a fresh one substituted and the operation repeated.

What we claim as our invention is- 1. In a device for dipping capsule-molds, the combination, with a suitable vessel for containing tbe huid gelatine, of a vertically-moved carrier, to which the molds are attached, a bar or frame for suspending thesame, and an adjustable stop for limiting the downward movement thereof, and a vertically-moving belt adapted to be temporarily connected to the said carrierframe for imparting a steady downward movement thereto, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for dipping capsule-molds, the combination, with the carrier F and suitable means for lowering the same, of the traveling belt P, and means, substantially as described, for temporarily connecting the carrier to the belt, as set forth.

3. In a. machine for dipping capsule-molds, the combination, with the carrier F, having a. projecting plate, O, ofthe belt P, for engaging with said plate for raising the carrier et a. uniform speed, and the counterbalanced lever H und connection between the said lever and carrer, substan tiell y as and for the purpose specified.

4. In a device for dipping capsule-molds, the carrier F, in combination with the loer E, heviug a. stop, L, the guide C, the adjusting-screw M, and means for raising,` and lowering said carrier and ber, substantially es described.

5. In a device for dipping capsulemolds,tl1e combination, with the carrier F, the bracket A, arm J, guide K, screw M, guide C, and rollers D, oi' the carrier F, having n plate, 0, the belt P, the bar E, having; stop L, and the lever H, substantially :1s and for the purpose specified.

FREDERICK A. HUBEL. HARRISON H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses: l

H. S. SPRAGUE,

E. SCULLY. 

